High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.