A woman always has her revenge ready.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.