No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.