Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?