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

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

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

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

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

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.