But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

Life is too short for a long story

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.