Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.