Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

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

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

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

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