Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

We never touch but at points.

Necessity does everything well.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.