If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.