Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.