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

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

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.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.