A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.