» There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
» Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.
» In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
» It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
» It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
» It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
» Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
» Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
» 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!
» Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.