I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.