There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.
A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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.