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.

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

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

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

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.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.