The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

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

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

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.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.