If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.