An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.