There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

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

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.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

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

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

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