You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.