Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.