Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

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.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.