General notions are generally wrong.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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.