It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself