All nature wears one universal grin.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.