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

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.