Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
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.