If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.