Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.