Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the use we are to make of this knowledge is, to afford no handle for reproach; for bad as the world is, it seldom falls on anyone who hath not given some slight cause for censure.

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

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.