Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.