No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.