Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.