For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

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

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.