We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued..

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed..

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius..

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time..

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclip….

We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, ….

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch..

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned..

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the worl….

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity..

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched..

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude..

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies..

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father..

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it..

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude..

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one t….

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand..

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable..

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us..