Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.