A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.