Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

It has all been most interesting.

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