As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

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

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.