It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.