We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.