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 woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

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.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the compleatest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

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.

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

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

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbour in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.