Love can be founded upon Nature only.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

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

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.