The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Keep away from the fire!

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

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.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.