Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.