Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.