Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.