Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.