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

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

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

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.