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.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.