A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.