There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.