It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.