Ceremonies Are The Outworks Of Manners.

Vanity, Or To Call It By A Gentler Name, The Desire Of Admiration And Applause, Is, Perhaps, The Most Universal Principle Of Humanactions.... Where That Desire Is Wanting, We Are Apt To Be Indifferent, Listless, Indolent, And Inert.... I Will Own To You, Under The Secrecy Of Confession, That My Vanity Has Very Often Made Me Take Great Pains To Make Many A Woman In Love With Me, If I Could, For Whose Person I Would Not Have Given A Pinch Of Snuff.

The Most Ignorant Are The Boldest Conjecturers.

Whenever A Man Seeks Your Advice He Generally Seeks Your Praise.

The Rich Are Always Advising The Poor, But The Poor Seldom Return The Compliment.

Polished Brass Will Pass Upon More People Than Rough Gold.