Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.