Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.