Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Justice satisfies everybody.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.