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

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.