A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.