Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodyโs 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.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.