Handsome is that handsome does.

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

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

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.