Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.