A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.