Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

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

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.