Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.