I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

I was struck all on a heap.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

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

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.