Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be