Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.