Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.