Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.