Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

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

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

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

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

However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.