Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

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