Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

A favour well bestowed is almost as great an honour to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech.

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