The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.