All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.