The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

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

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.

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

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