Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.