We hate the kindness which we understand.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.