Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.