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. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

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

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

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.