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

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

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.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.