Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.