For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Little leaks sink the ship.