“What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.”
“Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.”
“The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.”
“Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.”
“Most women have no characters at all.”
“That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.”
“Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.”
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