The soul has more diseases than the body.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.