Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.