It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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 education.
A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.
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 to appear cunning.
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
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 indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript
Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
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