It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

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.

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

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

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.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.