Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.