It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

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

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

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

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

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

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that no one ever desires you to kick that which belongs to himself, nor offers to kiss this part in another.