It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.