A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.