Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

All the bloomy flush of life is fled.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.