A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.