Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.