Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

There is no trusting appearances.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.