Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.