Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
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 fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.