There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.