He who writes badly thinks badly

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.