An excuse is a lie guarded.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.