If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.