The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.