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

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Encourage innocent amusement.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.