There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

Perseverance is king.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.