A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

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

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.