The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

The best of women are hypocrites.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

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

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.