Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

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.

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.