The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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.
Many a truth is told in jest.
Don't set your wit against a child.
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.