Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.