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

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

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.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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

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