Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Haste is always ungraceful.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.