If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.