Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Man, only -- rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

By the side of a murmuring stream, an elderly gentleman sat.
On the top of his head was a wig, and a-top of his wig was his hat.

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.