They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

An excuse is a lie guarded.