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

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

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

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.

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

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.