Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.