Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

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.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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.