Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one