The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

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

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.