It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.