Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

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

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

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

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.