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

Please your eye and plague your heart.

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.

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

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

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.