Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.