Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

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

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.