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

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

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

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

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.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.