A carpenter is known by his chips.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.