If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.