A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.