There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.