Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.