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.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.