The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.