Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

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.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

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