Malice blunts the point of wit.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

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

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