A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.