Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.