What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.