Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

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

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

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

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.