Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Money makes a man laugh.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.