To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

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

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

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

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.