No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
Every dog must have his day.
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite ’em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.