Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

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

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?