Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.