A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

A great large book is a great evil.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.