In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

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

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.