I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.