My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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.