Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.