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

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

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.