Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.