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

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.