Who said “They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of…”?

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”

“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”

“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”

“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”

“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.”

“I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.”

“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”

“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

“Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”

“If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”