Justice satisfies everybody.

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

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.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.