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

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 may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

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.

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.

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