When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.