No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.