Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.