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.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

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

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.