Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.