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.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.