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.

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

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

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

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.