Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.