Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

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

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.