Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

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

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

You must look into people, as well as at them.