The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

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.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

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