Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight