It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.