But authors before they write should read.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.