Wretched un-idea'd girls.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.