Wrongs Are Often Forgiven; But Contempt Never

We Are, In Truth, More Than Half What We Are By Imitation.

Women's Beauty, Like Men's Wit, Is Generally Fatal To The Owners.

Second-rate Knowledge, And Middling Talents, Carry A Man Farther At Courts, And In The Busy Part Of The World, Than Superior Knowledge And Shining Parts.

I Always Put These Pert Jackanapeses Out Of Countenance By Looking Extremely Grave When They Expect That I Should Laugh At Their Pleasantries; And By Saying Well, And So?--as If They Had Not Done, And That The Sting Were Still To Come. This Disconcerts Them, As They Have No Resources In Themselves, And Have But One Set Of Jokes To Live Upon.

If You Would Convince Others, Seem Open To Conviction Yourself.