A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms..

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons ….

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants….

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to….

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character..

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth..

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous..

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations..

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matte….

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it..

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

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

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.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of….

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character..

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts..

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living..

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery..