To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.