Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

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

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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.

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