Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.