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.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.