Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

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

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.