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

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

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

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.