An excuse is a lie guarded.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

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

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.