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

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

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

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

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.