Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Every dog must have his day.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.