Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

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

Envy is littleness of soul.

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

Experience makes us wise.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.