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

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.