A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.