The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.