Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.