It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

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.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do