What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.