Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.