Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.