Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.