... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Civility cost nothing.

How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.