Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

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.

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.

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

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.