Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.