The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.