Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.