“Lord, keep my memory green.”
“He would make a lovely corpse.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”
“Philosophers are only men in armor after all.”
“Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.”
“Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.”
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”
“Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.”
“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .”
“He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”
“The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”
“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
“With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.”
“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”