It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.