Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.