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.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

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

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.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.