The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

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

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

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.