Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.