It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

God sends the cold according to the coat.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

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