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

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

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

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

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

[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.

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