The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.