Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.