As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?