Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.