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.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Confidence is the best proof of love.

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

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.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

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