Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.