I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.