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

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.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

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.

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

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.