Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.