Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.