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

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

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

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

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

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.