Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restra…

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you f…

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

'We were escorted out of town in a bullet-proof bus because I said a pro-IRA statement in Antrim.'