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.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

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.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

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