Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.