Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.