If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

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

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.