"It is a miserable thing to be a dependent, and to have no other resource but the favor of great men."

"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."

"The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that a wise man knows he is a fool, and a fool thinks he is wise."

"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."

"Conversation is but carving; Carve for all, yourself is starving: Give no more to every Guest, Than he's able to digest; Give him always of the Prime; And but little at a Time. Carve to all but just e…"