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.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

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

Confidence is the best proof of love.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

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

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.