Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

Don't just think, do.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Mistakes are their own instructors

Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.