Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

History: gossip well told.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.