Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.