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.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

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

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.