| Quotes |
Topic |
| Choice | Betwixt the devil and the deep sea. |
| Choice | Between the victim and the stone knife. |
| Choice | Submit or resign. |
| Countries | Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian |
| Evil | Of two evils choose the least. |
| Failure | The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. |
| Grave | even if he had one foot in the grave. |
| Habit | A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. |
| Habit | We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny. |
| Learning | It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. |
| Names | We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. |
| Prophecy | From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit. |
| Proverbs | Of two evils choose the least. |
| Proverbs | In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. |
| Proverbs | An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. |
| Proverbs | He touches nothing but he adds a charm. |
| Public | It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. |
| Public | Classes and masses. |
| Worship | I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage. |
| Youth | An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. |
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