A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.