Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

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

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

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