111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.