Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Never contradict anybody.