Many a truth is told in jest.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

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

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

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

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.