Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.