The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.