Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

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

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.