Without big words, how could many people say small things?

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.