Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?