A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.