Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.