Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

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

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

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

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

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.