You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.
Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.