Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.