Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.