I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

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

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

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

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.