Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.