Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

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.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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.