Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

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

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.