Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

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.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.