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 is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Better be killed than frightened to death.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.