The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

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

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

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

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.