Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.