Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.