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

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

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

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

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

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.