We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.