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

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

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

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

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

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.