Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

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.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.