“No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.”

“All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.”

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.”