The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.