A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

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

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Every dog must have his day.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.