Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.