Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.