Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.