Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.