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

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

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.

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

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

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

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