Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Silence is often advantageous.

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.