Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.