Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Books, the children of the brain.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.