I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.