For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.