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.

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

A lie is an excuse guarded

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns