Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.