The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

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

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Come, agree, the law's costly.