Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.