Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.