It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.