Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

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

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

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason