He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.