If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

There is a skeleton in every house.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.