Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.