Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

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

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.