Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

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