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

“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.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“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.”

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”

“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.”