You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

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

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

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

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

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

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.