The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
Silence is a still noise.