There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.