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 person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

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

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.