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

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.