To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

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

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

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.