More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Better be killed than frightened to death.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse