Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.