Love can be founded upon Nature only.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

People can commend the weather without envy.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.