There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.