Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

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

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.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.