Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.