Anger is practical awkwardness.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight