Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

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