If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.