Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

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.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.