Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

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

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

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.