Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.