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

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

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.