A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.