Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.