A little scorn is alluring.
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.