It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

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 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.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me