wit is often its own worst enemy.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

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.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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