Business first, then pleasure.

Nothing ages like laziness.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.