The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.