Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

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

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.