Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
One dupe is as impossible as one twin.
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.