The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.