Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.