It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.