Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.