There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

[…] for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked his pipe, as was his custom in all broils, unless when he apprehended some danger of having it...

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

When I’m not thanked at all I’m thanked enough

What’s vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

It has often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Oh! The roast beef of England, / And old England’s roast beef.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially...

But pray, Mr Wild, why bitch?

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I...

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.

An amiable weakness.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be...

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriage, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.