I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

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

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.