Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.