Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.