A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

People can commend the weather without envy.

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