The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

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

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.