A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.