A college joke to cure the dumps.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

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

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.