It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.