I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.