A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.