As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

He endearing elegance of female friendship.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.