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

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.