Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
Malice blunts the point of wit.
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.