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

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

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

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.