A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.