A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.
He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!