Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.