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

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

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

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.