» The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
» Absence -- that common cure of love.
» Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
» No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
» If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
» Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
» He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
» There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
» Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
» Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.