The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.