After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

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.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.