Most Men Would Rather Be Charged With

It Is A Great Deal Easier For A Man To Find A Pedigree To Fit His Virtues Than Virtues To Fit His Pedigree.

Pedigrees Seldom Improve By Age; The Grandson Is Too Often A Weak Infringement On The Grandsire's Parent.

Plenty Of Folks Are So Contrary That If They Should Fall Into The River, They Would Insist Upon Floating Upstream.

Man Is My Brother, And I Am Nearer Related To Him Through His Vices Than I Am Through His Virtue.

Wise Men Have But Few Confidants, And Cunning Ones None.