For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

I row after health like a waterman.

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.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

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

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.