We Are All Apt To Think That

It Is Quite Fitting That Charity Should Begin At Home ... But Then It Should Not End At Home; For Those That Help Nobody Will Find None To Help Them In Time Of Need.

When The Mind Is Full Of Any One Subject, That Subject Seems To Recur With Extraordinary Frequency - It Appears To Pursue Or To Meet Us At Every Turn: In Every Conversation That We Hear In Every Book We Open, In Every Newspaper We Take Up, The Reigning Idea Recurs; And Then We Are Surprised, And Exclaim At These Wonderful Coincidences.

An Orator Is The Worse Person To Tell A Plain Fact.

The Labor Of Thinking Was So Great To Me, That Having Once Come To A Conclusion Upon Any Subject, I Would Rather Persist In It, Right Or Wrong, Than Be At The Trouble Of Going Over The Process Again To Revise And Rectify My Judgment.

Now Flattery Can Never Do Good; Twice Cursed In The Giving And The Receiving, It Ought To Be.