A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.