Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.