A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.