Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Honor lies in the mane of a horse.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.