We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.