Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.