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

wit is often its own worst enemy.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.