The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

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

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.