“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”

“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within”

“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space”