People can commend the weather without envy.

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

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

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.

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