What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.