Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.