We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.