It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

The dignity of history.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.

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