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.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

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

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.