The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

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

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.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.