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

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.