If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

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

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.