Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Of what avail are pedigrees?
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.