To be rude is as good as being clever.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.