Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

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

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.