Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

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