It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.