Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.