“Passions are the gales of life.”
“At every word a reputation dies.”
“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.”
“Die and endow a college or a cat.”
“Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”
“All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.”
“Most women have no characters at all.”
“To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
“Health consists with temperance alone.”
“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”
“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
“Most authors steal their works, or buy.”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.”
“Act well your part; there all honor lies.”
“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
“Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”
“Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.”
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
“Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.”
“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.”
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
“An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.”
“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
“When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.”
“Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.”