Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.