Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

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

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

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