If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

They think too little who talk too much.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.