The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.