All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
One fool at least in every married couple.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
