To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

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

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.