“Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.”
“It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.”
“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”
“Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.”
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
“Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
“Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.”
“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.”
“Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.”
“All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.”
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
“Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.”
“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”
“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
“Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.”
“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
“What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.”
“The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.”
“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
“It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.”
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
“Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.”
“One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.”
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
“The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”
“Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.”
“A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?”