Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.