I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.

Hunger is never delicate.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

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

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.