Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.