I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

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

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.