Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at dice, a long tailor's bill, a beggar's purse, a factious head, a hot sun, costive diet, want of books, and a just contempt for learning - but for these. . .the number of authors and of writing would dwindle away to a degree most woeful to behold.

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

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.