We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

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

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.