Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.