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1. Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
2. Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
3. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
4. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
5. As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
6. With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
7. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
8. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ’Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
9. All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
10. Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
11. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
12. The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
13. Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
14. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
15. The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
16. Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
17. They say women and music should never be dated.
18. Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
19. When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
20. The jests of the rich are ever successful.