Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

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

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.