It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.