A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.