I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

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.

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