The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.