tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.