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.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.