Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress