Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.