Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

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

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.