Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.