There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.