May you live all the days of your life.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Observation is an old man's memory.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.