God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.