A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.