Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
I have the knack of easing scruples.