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.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.