We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.