Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.