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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
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.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
