Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.