A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Little things are great to little men.

Crimes generally punish themselves.