A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.