Handsome Is That Handsome Does.

Affectation Proceeds From One Of These Two Causes,--vanity Or Hypocrisy; For As Vanity Puts Us On Affecting False Characters, In Order To Purchase Applause; So Hypocrisy Sets Us On An Endeavor To Avoid Censure, By Concealing Our Vices Under An Appearance Of Their Opposite Virtues.

The Slander Of Some People Is As Great A Recommendation As The Praise Of Others.

As A Conquered Rebellion Strengthens A Government, Or As Health Is More Perfectly Established By Recovery From Some Diseases; So Anger, When Removed, Often Gives New Life To Affection.

There Is Nothing A Man Of Good Sense Dreads So Much In A Wife, As Her Having More Sense Than Himself.

It Is With Jealousy As With The Gout. When Such Distempers Are In The Blood, There Is Never Any Security Against Their Breaking Out, And That Often On The Slightest Occasions, And When Least Suspected.