She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.