It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

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.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.