The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

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.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

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