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

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.