"He was a very good hater. "

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason while ...