What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

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

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.