There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

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

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.