Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature..

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other countr….

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please..

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right..

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay..

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose..

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable..

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be recei….

Silence is become his mother tongue..

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle..

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed..

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the….

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind..

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence..

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!.

Error is always talkative..

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little..

Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subor….