Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one