Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

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

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.