The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.