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.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Bread is the staff of life.