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

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.