I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

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.

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

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

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.