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.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.