The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

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

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.