Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.