Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

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.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

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.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.