The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.