Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.