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.
William ShenstoneThe love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
William ShenstoneWhen self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
William Shenstone