If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Biography is the best form of history.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.