Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.