A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

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.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.