Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.