There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

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.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

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

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.