There's one fool at least in every married couple.

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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