Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.