Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

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

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.