Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.