Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.