Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.