The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.