There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

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

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.