I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.