The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.