Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.