The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.