He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.