Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.