Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.