One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Applause abates diligence.