There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.