No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.