The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.