Perverseness is your whole defence.

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

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.