A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.