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.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

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.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

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

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.