He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
— Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
May you live all the days of your life.
Books, the children of the brain.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
