There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.