Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.