There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.