The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

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

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

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.