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

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

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. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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