Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.