I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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

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