Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

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

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.