A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

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

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

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

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