He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.