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

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.

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

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

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

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

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