"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another"
"Observation is an old man's memory"
"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing"
"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning"
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction"
"Books, the children of the brain"
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed"
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes"
"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"
"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest"
"May you live all the days of your life"
"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind"
