Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.