All nature wears one universal grin.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

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

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.