Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

I will maintain it before the whole world.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.