High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.