Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

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

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.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.