Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

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

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

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

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.