No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

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

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.