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

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

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

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

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