Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.