The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.