All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

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.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.