Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.