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.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

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

What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.