The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Books, the children of the brain.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.