Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.