Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.