Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.