Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.