Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the sam….

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed,….

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them..

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea..

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim..

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts..

The dignity of history..

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that ver….

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant ….

To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fort….

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts..

Enough is equal to a feast..

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ough….

Penny saved is a penny got..

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all..

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not..

Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the mi….

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country..

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened t….