Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

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

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Observation is an old man's memory.