What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.