'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.