Credulity lives next door to Gossip. - Samuel Laman Blanchard

No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity.

The starched matron is fain to put faith in the compliment which in her day of youth and grace she knew to be nonsense. ...If her mirror will not admit of this she has other resources; she has sage counsel, admirable judgment, perfect knowledge of the world. ...Tell her she is not to be imposed upon, and you impose upon her effectually. Admire her penetration, and you will not find her impenetrable.