People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.