My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one..

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years..

Be just before you are generous..

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of….

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics..

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jac….

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature..

Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own..

Good reading makes for damn hard writing..

I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me..

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day..

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who ….

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading..

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside..

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way..

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously..

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in a….

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery..

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick..

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers..