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

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

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

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.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.