Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

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.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.