Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

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

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.