You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Silence gives consent.