Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

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.