"I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit like patience on a monument whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof am…"

"On one side I am called upon to remember the parrot, on the other to remember the dog. For my own part I should not pine much if both were forgot."

"I am unwilling to be the only man in whom the love of my Country is not the ruling principle."

"I am glad to hear that my old acquaintance Colonel Ward is yet under the influence of vigorous passions. I will not ascribe the intrepidity of his late enterprise to a mere flash of desires, because i…"

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."