Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.