Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.