Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired