If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

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.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.