Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

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

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.