A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

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

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

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

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

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