Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.