It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is t….

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should….

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip..

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good..

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it..

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery..

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it..

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible..

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body..

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an ….

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to he….

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life..

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal educatio….

The insupportable labor of doing nothing..

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered..

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband..

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their….

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false..

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.