Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

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

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.