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

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

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

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.