Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.