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

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.

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.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

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.

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

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.