There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

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

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

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.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.