Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.