Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.